A survey has found that 13 per cent of the UK's biggest companies did not have their websites ready for the launch of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), the first new version of Microsoft's market-leading browser since IE6 launched back in 2001.
IE browsers are used by 80 per cent of internet users, said usability consultancy Etre, …

Surprised ?

Arrogance

The mozilla team went out of there way to ensure there browser worked with the majority of web sites, I guess it's not unusual for M$ to be so arrogant as to assume everybody will fall into line.

As a web developer I get really fed up with having to hack my sites to work in IE (especially the box model which seems to crop up a lot), chances are upgrades are going to be more than a quick fix for any big/complex site.

I wouldn't mind updating so much if I thought I was going to see IE5.x / 6 disappear for good but somehow I can't see that happening. Hopefully broken sites will encourage even more people to switch to Firefox...